VIDEO: "I was not Selected in Team once as my Father Refused to Pay Bribe" - Virat Kohli

Recalling an incident during an Instagram Live session with Indian Football team Captain Sunil Chhetri, Virat Kohli said his father refused to bribe a Cricket official once to get him selected in the team.

"I have mentioned this before also. There was a time when in State cricket, a lot of things happen, you know (there are) many factors which are not fair," Kohli said.

"There was an opportunity, where a certain someone chose to step out of the rules and say, 'here's the situation you'd need a bit more than just merit to get selected'," he added.

Kohli said his father Prem was someone who believed in hard work rather than taking shortcuts to attain success.

"He said to my coach, 'if he (Virat) can play on his merit, then fine else we do not want to play him. I won't do all this. And I was not selected and I cried a lot, I was broken," Kohli said.

Explaining what he learnt from this experience, Kohli said: "But that taught me something that this is how the world is run. If you want to progress do something that no one else is doing. That lesson he gave me because you can only rely on your hard work and that I saw from my father who made a living, made a life for himself, and gave me the right teachings by actions."